How do I see my most recent downloads by image? All I can figure is one at a time using earnings. Is there some way to sort by date and see?

Adobe now has over 605 000 generative ai images. It also has a lot more that were uploaded without marking them as gen ai.

Once the Midjourney app comes out, this will be the fastest growing collection ever. With endless duplicates.

But then...if there is no limit on uploading a plate with spaghetti, why should there be a limit to genai? let the market sort it out.

But it does sell. My stuff from dalle is much simpler than the stunning Midjourney files, but I already have a few sales, which I find really suprising, because I am limited by the square format.

This will be the greatest incoming flood of content in stock history.

That's Microstock isn't that? A great flood of endless duplicate similar content.

How would you like stock photography platforms to handle the uploading of AI-generated content?

Should there be a difference between completely-AI-generated content, and AI-assisted content in which there is substantial human work and editing involved?


If AI-generated content is allowed, should royalties and earnings of the AI-generated content be shared with human creators? If so, what share would be appropriate?

If I take a digital photo and edit in photoshop, that's my image. If I enter words and AI makes an image and I edit in illustrator, that's my image. Why should I share my earnings from either?

I am around 200th for the week with around 1000dls (don't want to be more specific or discuss portfolio size)

Why not?

I can't believe how difficult it's becoming to make a living as creative these days.

I just bought a rare old vinyl recording and paid 100X over the original price. Do I send the money to the record company or the musicians? Or do I report the seller to make sure he pays the artists for their old work.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on September 19, 2022, 10:51

Anyway, no there isn't a service or agency right now that allows anyone to produce commercial AI created images that are good enough.

Ah Uncle Pete they are, they are already of enough good quality.
And strange enough, nobody commented here this
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332684/ai-generated-artwork-wins-state-fair-competition-colorado

Is that a commercial service or production site?

Quote from: Uncle Pete on August 07, 2022, 13:55

Someone tell me, CO₂ is 0.0414% of the atmosphere and that's causing the climate to change? I never knew it was such a small number as 4/100th of 1 percent.

What is causing the climate change is the manmade increase in the CO2 concentration. The base line concentration of about 0.028% is also causing a greenhouse effect and together with some other gases is responsible for the Earth being a class M planet. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be an ice planet.

Five quadrillion tonnes of atmosphere, and .028% change causes all this destruction. Very fragile that such a small change can cause all these problems. How do we stop the change? 200 years of humans making co2 how can we reverse that?

Adobe stock

Adobe Stock

I can see this partnership in the future being just one massive subscription site. Thats where all this is heading.

A massive collection of subscription agencies that pay us almost nothing. SS will take P5 into the sewer along with their own business.

Quote from: Sandeel on April 25, 2022, 10:10

Changed algorithm means changed, not better for everyone or worse for everyone. Some images are moved further back, some are brought to the fore. That's what definitely happened. My sales are about the same as before, but there was a shift in WHAT sells. Some older best sellers were brought back from the dead and some other best sellers were disfavored. I had regularly checked the results for at least one very major keyword and I see different results on the first three pages since April, I mean all results, not just my own.

Also you can notice any algorithm changes if you go to your own portfolio and search for a keyword within it. The order that you see there is exactly how they appear in the main site's search. For example let's say you search for "flower" in your port and see image x at the top and then image y. Then you go to the main site and search for flower. Image x will be the first of your own images that you will find and image y will be the second, and so on. That's a fact, it was 100% and steadily confirmed for me, without any exceptions. Now if the algorithm changes, the sorting of your own images will suddenly be all over the place, and that's what happened.

Ah, so you are saying, someone shuffled the deck and dealt our new image ranks, in a different order. Interesting.

So that whole thing in the multiple webinars and files, and advice, about the rank being set in the first 30 days, isn't true anymore?

But being seen can change, I see you posted a quote. Rank is the same but page and search can be different. I think I'll buy in for seasonal or trending.

Quote from: MatHayward on April 11, 2022, 15:02

My question wasn't whether there could be an article written in which a generic house could appropriately illustrate it. My question was about what it was specific to those exact houses that would inspire editorial use about those particular houses?

I am afraid I do not understand the question then. You could ask the same about every single image in Adobe's database.
I could ask the same about the 16 million hits with the keyword "house" you mentioned. What  is specific to those exact 16 million that would inspire editorial use about those particular houses any more than Contemporary Dave's house image? For an editorial piece a customer can use a commercial image just the same as an editorial one, so why not give him the choice?

I simply do not understand the choice and still don't understand why some images are rejected. The house issue, regardless of whether I don't understand why it can't be an editorial, could simply be solved by submitting it as commercial, but in my cases my rejected images can't.  I had images of, for example , a BASF factory building complex rejected. And now, if someone wants to write an article about BASF he would want a photo of a BASF factory with the BASF logo right there and not some generic factory. So, why aren't imges like this accepted as editorial? Isn't this specific enough?

Every photo could illustrate something. Do you understand this? At Adobe Stock, we define illustrative editorial as conceptual imagery designed to illustrate articles on current events and newsworthy topics. This type of content often features images of real brands and products � like signs on buildings, soda cans, computers, and cars � to convey a story.

That's what Adobe says what they define IEC. Current events, newsworthy, conceptual, convey a story, not because you can't submit it as commercial.

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on March 06, 2021, 12:51

Can we expect your quantity of posts to decrease once your suspension is lifted on the SS forums? And how long have we got left to go... just out of interest?

It'll be a very high pace.  So, hold your breath.  If you don't like it, just put me on your ignore list.  I have a few annoying and hostile people on ignore list already, but they keep commenting on my posts somehow.  I don't understand them.  What's your Shutterstock username?

Please add me to your ignore list, thank you.